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TIN NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. c. DECEMBER %, 1887
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

IN THE VALLEK.-The Shenandoah Cam
3,oga u 1862. By Gen. Henry CqpchaTt,
Fargo, OAK.
ACROSS TIE PLATNS.-A NarratiUe Of a
Wild Western Trip ia 1867. By w. Thorn
Ton Pa1Ecr, late Acting Assistant Surgeon,
Us. A., Newport, r. J.
on 10 RICHMOND.-A Graphic Narrative
Of Capture and CdlHiUity By George q.
braCord, Co. G, LIST ". "a, WeilsJWrg, w. Va.
H1WKTNS'S ZOUAFES.-TRe First BayO-
aci Charge By ,. IT, e. Whitney, Sergeant,
Go. y, ga ~ T., Eep York City.
PERRTVILLE-The Battle as Seen by an
lrfiHaymGn. By w. H. Ball, 9TH His.
Battery, Eden, Oak.
CAHABA PRTS0N-Life and Death IN This
Place Of Confinement By q. J. T'cnamn
LEHJSBURG-CampaigniRg and Fighting
an Hca Virginia. By JOHN z. Booth, Ser
geaRt, Co. G, 36h Ohio, Har1Cell, o.
EHE Wild ATS.n-,Scmethiag about the
1854 Pa. By X M s."
zREPILLLAg A7TON-7He caraly bat
lie hrc and Gen Custcrs maroon escape
By capt ~ D. Preston, 1oM n. T. CcU.
Pittsburg, Pa.
IN REBEL PRTSOES--7ze graphic story o
Lieut. Wills, 51a Ind By Frank a. Myors
Washington, Ind.
NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. - Hou
ono third Of Ae Union area agas sared Ia
1861 f62 Bg Sggt A. B. Sampson, Trool
r. Isl Colo. CaU., Tucson, DIRK.
HAGOKMASTER'S STORK-An episod
Of Ai0sJy's career iR the Shenandoah. b
M Y. HargpOne BrOlgR's Mills, ~ J.
F0RT PTLLOF-TEe story Of the tragedy o
lEra - 1864 by r. C. George, 7th Kan
Can, Sheffield, Pa.
BULL RUN, GETTTSBURG AND TIL
HYLDERNESS.-7h The Uork Of the caUalTl
IN those campaigns. By A. z. Matthews, is
Affch CaU., Milford, Mich
TIE LAST BLOW At HOODS ARMY
The chase southi0qrd from Nashville and III
attach on The pOntOORs. By Lieut.. Charlie
Kirl. 18Th Pa. Cag., PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
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he motion was agreed to.
WORK OF THE PENSION OFFICE.

The total number of claims received dur
ing the week ending Dee. TO- 1887, was 1867.
OF this number 800 were original invalid
claims; 3713 widows; 5 war 1912; 13bounty
land claims; % navy claims; 2 old war; 163
on account of Mexican service, and 3,199 APP
plications for increase.
The total receipts of mail matter during
the week were $3.50 pieces. There were
44,129 letters and circulars sent out. There
were furnished for the use of claimants 1926
names and postoffice addresses OF officers and
comrades The number of examinations re-
ported were 2,27S. The amount of fees for
these examinations was $l2,56352, or an
average cost per examination of $452.
Report of certificates issued during week
ending Dec II, 1897: Original, 617; increase
1876; reissue, 900; restoration, So; duplicate
8; accrued, 60; arrears, o.; Act of March
3, 1883, o; Order of April 3, 1884, A !; Act o
March 3, 1885, 0; Order Oct. Z, 1885, 2; Ae
of Aug. 4, 1886, 3; Supplemental, Act Aug
a, 1886, 6; Mexican war, 261; total, 2,Ol9
| Reissue same date, o.
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THERE is one yell that the sOldier-haters
never fail to raise when any pension bill is
pressed, aad that is that it is a pension
sharks scheme No one who is friendly to
tie soldiers is ever disturbed by this clamOr,
for it is easy for anyone to see that there are
no men in the country who do as much
hard work for their clients for as little pay
as pension attorneys. But it will have no
force whatever when applied to the proposi-
ton to repeal the limitation to the arrears of
pensions. While that measure, if enacted
will put millions of dollars into the pockets
of pensioners, not one dollar of it will go to
any pension attorney. Each pensiOner now
on the rolls will receive his arrears directly
from the Commissioner of Pensions, without
the necessity of his being at cent of ex-
pense in any direction. Probably the sol
dier-haters will howl pensiOn-shark's
scheme all the same, though. The triAing
consideration of thing being utterly untrue
never is allowed to deter them for an instant
from saying what they want to.
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WHO THEY ARE.

There are some honest, well-meaning
men of limited information among those who
are making the most noise about cutting
down the Nations income, but the great
bulk of them are divided into three classes,
who are actuated by selfish motives. These
are:
/. The soldier-haters, who want to defeat
all future pension legislation by putting it
out of the power of the Nation to pay pen
sions.
3 National-bankers, mOney-lenders, etc,
who want to continue the National debt in
definitely, and are scheming to do so by
putting it out of the Nations power to pay
off its bonds as fast as they become due.
3. The Free Traders, per sc, of New York
and other seaboard cities, who want to abolish
the protective tariff and destroy our home
manufactures, in order that every ton of
produce raised on our fertile acres will have
to be sent to the seaboard for sale abroad
and every yard of cloth and pound of iron
needed by our people will have to be i'm
ported from abroad by these gentlemen Of
the seaboard cities. This, they calculate
will greatly increase their business impor
lance and profits and their calculation j!
correct. Every yard of cloth and ton o
iron manufactured in this country is, in
sense, diminution of the Importance of tn,
importers of New York, Boston, etc. If tn
cloth or iron was not made here it woul,
have TO be bought abroad, and the importer
would make a profit handling it. The,
would also make a profit in handling tn
breadstufis or other produce sent abroad t
pay for it, and which are now consumed a
home by the men who are engaged in tn
manufacture of iron and cloth 1t is selfisl
business considerations like these whicl
have made the New York and Boston me-
and newspapers such bitter opponents of Al
pensions, because these make use for tn
money derived from duties on importation
and so help furnish justification for thei
continuance.
What we say is not theorizing or specu
lation, but calm statement of facts, as in
disputable as the assertion that this is III
year of grace 1887. Anybody who stops I
reflect will see this at once.
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A wRErCHED IMPOSITION.

Col. l.. ID. Immell, Washington, No., calls
our attention to the following communica-
ton received by him from the Adjutant-
Generals office of his State:
HEADQUARTERS, STATE on MISSOURI, !
ADJUTASr-GENERAL's OFFICE,
CITY OF JEFFERSON, Nov. s, 1881.
L. ID. IMMEIL, ESQ, Washington, Mo.
SIR: Your letter of Sd inst. received. The infor-
nation desired will be furnished upon the receipt
of fee offs for certificate. required by act of
the General Assembly, approved March 81, 1875.
In care OF Hermann Loefiier, Corporal, Co. i,
LIST Mo. Art. Respectfully,
j. q. JAMESON,
On Acknowledgement of Missouri.
ID. nARKER, Chief Clerk.
1t seems to us that this is q real imposi-
ton. So far as we know no other State in
the Union taxes its soldiers for furnishing
them with information that they may re-
quire in regard to their records.
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WE are promised an interesting set-tO be-
tween American and English toughs, which
may result in several low-grade funerals that
the general public will approve Of That
charming product of Boston cultivation
Mr. John L. Sullivan-has arranged for
genial little smuggling match with Mitchell,
who is the champion bruiser of England.
The fight win be under the superintendent
of bOss-rOwdy named Chippy-NOrton, who
has been known to rush into the ring, when
the fight is not going the way he wants it,
of gang of common rowdies, who make
short work of the victorious pugilist. 1t is
assumed that Mr.. Chippy-NOrton viii try to
play this game on Sullivan when the latter
is about to knock Mr. Mitchell out for the
fourth and last time. Sullivan has antici-
pated this exhibition of truly British fair
play by taking along with him body guard
Of 10 "bad men from this country, headed
by an ex-Sherif from Texas, who has an
extensive private graveyard to testify to his
skill with the revolver. His associates are
nearly his equals in experiences with the
great American weapon, and they promise
to make it quite sultry for the English
tOughs who rely on knives and brass
knuckles to carry their point.
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PAY THE DEBT AT ONCE.

There can be no defense whatever to the
dishonesty of Withholding the arrears of
pensions which are due the veterans. 1t is
fraud and robbery, and fraud and robbery of
kind that is beyond palliation. No con-
tract could be stronger than the one which
the Government entered into with its SOL
diers TO pay them adequate pensions in case
they were injured by reason of such service
To those to whom it has granted pensions it
has conceded that they were injured by their
service, and that pensions are due them. But
it dishonesty withholds from those to whom
it has made a tardy acknowledgment of this
debt the portion rightfully due for the period
between the incurrence of the injury and
the time the pension was allowed. Sharp
practice like this in the commercial world
would exclude the man who practiced it
from association with honorable business
men. 1t is not a particle more honorable
or honest for the United States to say
that it will pay pension fol certain years
in which n man has been suffering from
disability, and will not pay for others in
which his disability was precisely the same,
than it is for any business man to say that
he will pay one-half the money due his cred
itors and not the other half The pension
for 1867 is just as honestly due as for 1887.
To take his pension for 1877 away from the
veteran is to swindle him just as cruelty and
wickedly as TO take away his pension for
this year.
Every month that the Government delays
this payment aggravates the offense and the
dishonesty, for by so doing an irreparable in
jury is inflicted upon this deserving class of
creditors. 1t can never compensate pen
sioner who is now in the decline of life for
Withholding from him that he sOrely needed
TO purchase the common necessaries needed to
make his days of pain and weakness toler-
able
Let the Government at once apply some
Of the millions it has lying idle in its vaults
to the discharge OF this debt of honor. Let
it do it nO'C-not next year, or even next
Summer-but now, when the veterans need
the money to carry them through the Win
ter Hundreds are dying every month to
whom this money has been due ever since
the war, and whose death hasprobably been
hastened, rs their last days have certainly
been made more sOrrowful, by the failure OF
the Government to give them the money
due them.
Pay the debt now.
Take the millions necessary from the
Treasury vaults, and distribute them among
the veterans to whom the debt is due.
Convert that much idle money into active
capital, which will speedily find its way into
every storekeeper's till, every manufac,
turer's bank account in the country, and
give healthy impulse toall manner of bust
ness.
Do this because it will be the highest
wisdom TO distribute the surplus to the
people.
Better still, do it because it is eternally
right that the Nation should pay its debls tC
the men who saved its life.
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WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED

What we have pictured Of the direful con-
sequences which would have followed if our
soldiers had not perseyered against all dis
cOuragements and fought the war TO a tri-
umphant conclusion, is sustained by test.
mony Of Gen. j. L. Colston, distinguished
Confederate officer who, after Lee surrender
ed, went abroad, and served with credit in
foreign armies, until be recovered from the
sting Of defeat and came back TO the United
States thoroughly reconstructed" He says:
We can hardly doubt that IL the Union had been
broken up into three or four Confederaces as Il
would have been after its prestige was once de
s.Toyedl they would have felt toward each other as
France, Germany. Austria and Russia feel al this
day. The result would have been vain attempts 10
maintain "a durable balance Of power continual
wars, CONSUMPTION, standing armies Notifications
and custom-houses on every frontier and burdens
far more grieyous than those under which all
, Europesnow grooming. The Southern Confederacy
Tor Confedcracies), being inferior in population and
resources, would have felt these burdens far more
than the Others. None OF these new nationalties
would have been strong enough TO command the
respect OF the great European powers, which would
have made America the field of their ntllgues and
D conquesls, attempted IN Mexico under Maxi
millian.
These opinions. formed even before len Ameri
ca TO follow military career abroad were con
rned and intensified by seeing the condition of the
d European masses, taxed without mercy and made
e food for powder TO maintain modify the bal
anoc Of power.
y Thus even those who fought as most bit
tcrly admit that there could not have beer
. any Of our present unexampled prosperity
had it not been bought by the blood, healtl
and strength Of those who sacrificed them
selves TO save the country. As we have re
% peatedly said, there would not be 81 in Thu
a country where there is now 81 900, had no
100000 Of the best and brayest of our son
sacrificed their lives, and twice as man,
more their limbs, health and bodily yigor &
avert the ruin which was impending. Il
place Of our being able 10 report forty-thre
billions Of property in the country at thelas
census, we would not have had more than
decimal fraction OF that amount
What base iEgrattude it is, then, TO refus
a small pittancc Of this enormous wealth Z
satisfy the just claims Of those who sacri
10 feed themselves TO gain it for the men VII
rs now enjoy it!
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LINcOLN's GETTYSBURG GRAFTON.

In compliance with the request of several
comrades we republish below the text of
President Lincoln's immortal grafton at
Gettysburg-incOmparably the finest bit of
elOquence in any language:
Fourscore and seven yearsago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent new Nation, conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. Now we are engaged in
great civil testing whether that Nation or any
Nation, SO conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure.
We are met on great battlefield of that war.
We are met 10 dedicate portion OF il the final
resting place OF those who here gave their lives
that that Nation might live. But in larger sense
We cannot dedicate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here have eonsecrated it far beyond our power to
add or detract. The world will very little note
or long remember what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did here.
IL is for the living rather, 10 be dedicated to
the unfinished work they have thus far so nobly
carried It is rather for to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before US, that from
these hOnoTed dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they here gave the Inst full
measure Of devotion; that the Nation shall. under
God. have a new birth Of freedom and that the
Governments of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
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TRIBUNETS.
THEY ALWAYS DO.

saarty-Thickhed DO you know that next
year Christmas and New Years will come on
different days of the week?
Thickbed-NO; why that can't be possible.
They always come on the same day of the week.
SaartJ-Well, they won't next year. can
prove it to you.
Tkiekhed-Lets see you do it,
Smarty-Well, here's a calendar for 1888. See
New Years comes on Sunday and Christmas ON
Tuesday.
Thickhed-But the New Years that comes
after Christmas comes on Tuesday, too.
Smarty-But that's New Years of 1889. I
haven't anything to do with that I said New
Year S and Christmas next year.
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PHILADELPHIANs are not at all pleased
with the proposition to negotiate treaty
ofarbitration between the United States and
Great Britain. A meeting was held there
last week which was nunerously attended
by leading citizens, and which decided
that the United States always got the worst
of it in such treaties. The verdict of the
Halifax Tribunal of 1871 was an instance of
illustrations.
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RENEW IN TIME.

All subscribers should now serutinize the
number which appears in the date line at
the head of the paper, and compare it with
that in the address slip containing their
name. This is to prevent their subscription
running out and the paper being stOpt. So
much of unusual interest is now appearing
in the paper that no one can afford to lose
a single number. 1t is easy to understand
when the subscription expires. For exam
pie, the number of this paper is $50. If the
number on the yellow address slip is 333
the subscriber will know that his subscrip-
ton expires next week; if 334 in two weeks
and so on. Let him look to it, and send his
subscription in at once and avoid the risk
OF missing paper.
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THE DISABILITY PENSION ELL.

Last week Senator Henderson intro
dUced into the Senate the bill prepared by
the GAR National Pension Committee,
granting pensions to ex-soldiers and sailors
who are incapacitated for the performance of
labor, and providing pensions to dependent
relatives. 1t was read twice by its title, and
Gen. Henderson said:
introduce this bill by the unanimous request Of
the Pension Committee OF the Grand Army of the
Republic. It embodies the views of that great and
patriotic organization expressed in their late
National Assembly. 1t was my purpose to move
that the bill lie upon the table, SO that might ut
the convenience OF the Senate submit some re-
marks in regard to the subject matter; but deem
II best to refer it direct to the Committee on Pen
sions. in order that may hasten action upon it.
and will hereafter, when il shall come back from
that Committee, submit what remarks 1 may see
fit to make. / move that the bill be referred to
the Committee on Pensions.
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THE WATERBURY, WATCH

is no cheap, catch-penny humbug, but gen.
uine, reliable time-keeper, as reliable as any
watch made. This has been demonstrated
by the hundreds Of thousands of them there
are in use in the country. We have sent
ont many thousands Of them, and every one
has given complete satisfaction. We guar
antee every one that we send out
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THE revenue system in q hundred times
more oppressive form than at present
was maintained until more than FOUR
THOUSAND MILLION DOL
LARS of the war Observation-Disclosures and
interest-was paid off. Why notcOntinue the
present light and scarcely felt system until
every dollar due any man-Veteran or bond
holders paid, and we can bequeath the
country to our children as free from debt as
we made it free from the shackles of the
bOndsman?
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THE LOGAN FUND.

The contributions to monument to our
noble comrade, John A. Logan, who was
mustered out of our ranks more than year
ago, are coming in from day to day. They
are not coming in as fast as they should
for every man, woman and child in the
United States who honors patriotism and
courage should feel impelled to hasten to
lay tribute on his tomb. Particularly
ought the veterans of the war and their
relatives to do this, for he devoted his life
and his great talents to their service. If
every man and woman who has been beDe-
flied by John A. Logan's lifelong labor
should send even widows mite to build o
monument, one could be built rs great as q
pyramid. The following contributions have
- n
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CONVERSATION CLUB BADGE

The above picture shows the exact size Of
The eieraut badge designed for the members
ofTHr NATIONAL TEmUNE's Conversation
Club. B made Of coin silver, and makes
Svore rreily onsmcEt We viii send il TO
SDy d.ass on receipt Of 81.
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THE Boston Post thinks that the next
thing we shall hear will be that Anthony
COmstOck will only allow dressed beef to
appear in market
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THE veterans and their dependent ones
have waited long enough for the Govern
ment to pay them what is their righteous
due. Let the debt be paid at once.
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Patriotism says: Pay of the National
debt" Sound business policy says: Free
the Nation from debt as soon as possible"
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MRS. LoGAN.s PENSION

At a meeting of the Senate Committee on
Pensions last Monday it was decided to re-
introduce the bill giving Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan the same rate of pension now granted to
the widows of Gems. Hancock and Thomas.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE BOOM.

Theworls embarrassing goes on from week
to week, with increasing impetus. This
week we have the pleasure of reporting the
following clubs sent in by our friends in va
riOus p1rts of the counfrv.
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THE WATERBURY WATCH
Take q Chance While II is Offered.

The Waterbury Watch Company has
changed its plan Of conducting business, and
viii henceiorth only sell its watches through
the regular jewelry stores.
We have still a small number Of these
splendid timepieces on hand, which we viii
sell ri the old rates
That is. we will send the watch
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